Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/ečw-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Georgian-Zan

Noun

*ečw-

1. adze

Reconstruction notes

In Zan აცქვ- ← *აჩქვ- (ackv- ← *ačkv-) in accordance with Gamq̇reliʒe's law.

Descendants

• ⇒ Old Georgian: ეჩუეჲ (ečuey), ეჩუაჲ (ečuay), ეჩოჲ (ečoy)
  • Georgian: ეჩო (ečo), ეჩუა (ečua) — Guria, ეჩვაჲ (ečvay) — Tusheti
    • → Mingrelian: ეჩვა (ečva), ერჩვა (erčva)
• Zan:
  • Laz: ანცქვი (anʒkvi), ანცქო (anʒko), ანწკო (anǯǩo), ამცქვა (amʒkva), ამსქვა (amskva)
  • Mingrelian: *აცქვ- (*ackv-)
    • → Svan: აცქუ̂ (ackû)

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 48, mistranslates as "hatchet"; considers Svan to be a Zanism
• Fähnrich, Heinz, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: University Press, page 192, considers Svan to be inherited
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 153, considers Svan to be inherited
• Čuxua, Merab (2012) “Saertoḳavḳasiuri ḳulṭura enobrivi monacemebis mixedvit [Common Caucasian culture according to language data]”, in Ḳavḳasiologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume IV, Tbilisi, page 131 of 126–147, adds Laz
• Ḳelauraʒe, Levan (2019) “Damaṭebani kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳonisatvis - VI [Addenda to Etymological Dictionary of Kartvelian Languages - VI]”, in Eṭimologiuri ʒiebani (in Georgian), volume XVI, Tbilisi, page 45 of 42–55, adds Laz

Further reading

• Gamq̇reliʒe, Tamaz (1959) Giorgi C̣ereteli, editor, Sibilanṭta šesaṭq̇visobani da kartvelur enata uʒvelesi sṭrukṭuris zogi saḳitxi [Sibilant correspondences and some problems of the oldest structure of the Kartvelian languages] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis gamomcemloba, pages 1–86
• Ḳarṭozia, Guram (1984) “Sibilanṭta šesaṭq̇visobis darɣvevata axsnisatvis kartvelur enebši [Toward an explanation of disturbances of the sibilant correspondences in Kartvelian languages]”, in Macne: enisa da liṭeraṭuris seria (in Georgian), number 2, Tbilisi, pages 130–144
• Ḳelauraʒe, Levan (2022) “Ḳidev ertxel „gamq̇reliʒis c̣esis“ šesaxeb [Once again about Gamq̇reliʒe's law]”, in Arnold čikobavas saḳitxavebi (in Georgian), volume XXXIII, Tbilisi, pages 28–35